July, 1897. The Russian schooner, Demeter, sets sail from Varna carrying fifty oblong boxes partially filled with earth. A month later, in the midst of a raging storm, the derelict Demeter runs aground in Whitby, England, her crew missing save for her captain, tied to the wheel with a crucifix in his lifeless hands. The only living thing aboard, a huge dog, escapes into the night.

In his classic ‘Dracula’, Bram Stoker, with a few cryptic entries in an unnamed captain’s journal, offered scant hints about the terrifying voyage that brought the vampire king from his home to a blood-rich London. Now, the whole mind-rending tale is told. The story of Trevor Harrington, a British scholar and fugitive. Of Swales, the old Scot cook, who deceives their commander, but knows a good deal “aboon grims and boh-ghosts”. Of Ekaterina Gabor, a beautiful Romanian who follows her lover by stowing away. Of Captain Nikilov, fighting for his ship and crew while something evil, more virulent than the black plague, decimates their number. Of Demeter herself, named for the Greek goddess of renewal, lost and tossed on an unforgiving sea. And of Count Dracula, at rest in Demeter’s dark hold until the unintended actions of her crew resurrect the vampire and his unquenchable bloodlust.

Targeted Age Group:: 16 and over

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
A love of the original novel, Dracula, and a sincere desire to know what happened on that fateful sea voyage. How much romance and adventure would there be aboard an old sailing vessel, on a month-long cruise, with a vampire – the king of all vampires – hidden in the hold?

(Book 2 in The Blackstone Vampires Series, Book 1 being The House on Blackstone Moor)

The day Eco first laid eyes on Rose Baines was the day she discovered her family’s savage butchery at the hands of her mad, incestuous father.
“I saw you leave the house that day, Rose. That terrible day you discovered your family butchered. I saw you…”
Eco, realizing he has fallen in love with her, pens a confession documenting all of his sins committed in the course of his immortal existence. His one request is that Rose reads his confession.
From Ancient Egyptian vampire cults to Roman vampire brothels to The Dark Ages, between The Crusades and The Black Death of 1348, to his meeting with the child murderer and Satanist Gilles de Rais, and concluding with his wicked affair with the Blood Countess herself, Erzebat Bathory, the Unholy Testament will take you through historical times. The pages are filled with debauchery, vice and murder – yet there is also something Eco swears to be love.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
The book follows the story of Rose Baines (The House on Blackstone Moor).
I was inspired to continue the story.

Tyler is an amnesiac, drifting aimlessly across the country, struggling to regain his lost memories. When he arrives in Geddy’s Moon, a sleepy town in the middle of the Kansas wheat fields, fragments of his past begin to resurface. But as he establishes new relationships in town, and spends time with the local librarian and her son, he finds himself tormented by nightmares that grow more unsettling each night. What horrific events took place before Tyler arrived in Geddy’s Moon? And could he have brought a terrifying – and possibly supernatural – danger along with him? As the pieces of his fractured memory begin to fall into place, he fears that it may already be too late to keep himself, and those he’s begun to care about, safe from a vicious evil.

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I was in a college psychology course, and we were studying psychogenic fugue states. And I found the idea utterly fascinating. In some cases, the people suffering from fugues would wander away from their old lives and just…erase their old memories. Then they’d create new personas and begin living new lives elsewhere. I found myself wondering what could happen in someone’s life that would be so horrible that they’d just erase their life to get away from it. That was really the original inspiration for the character of Tyler in Geddy’s Moon, and then the rest of the story kind of developed out of that.

Thirty-four tales of the bizarre, horrific and weird await you. Edge of Reality presents short stories to fill your night with chills and your mind with visions of things not of this Earth.

– A man battles the spirit world for the life of his wife.
– A religious artifact, more potent than the Holy Grail is the focus of a life’s quest.
– Witch doctor threatens the lives of the young.
– A warrior woman in a steampunk world battles ferocious creatures.
– A man attempts to raise a zombie army to rule the world.

These tales and many more transport you beyond the Edge of Reality. Only have a few minutes? Trying to pass the time on the train or wind down for bed? These short stories are the perfect size to stimulate your imagination in the tiny gaps left in our busy lives.

This book is a collection that combines several e-books by Edmund de Wight into one easily managed volume.

This volume contains the full contents of the e-books:
Death Songs
10 Days to Samhain
The Next World
Seat of Destiny

Targeted Age Group:: 13+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I love a good story but never have time to read a full length novel. I wanted to create tales that are tailor made for those bite size chunks of time that we manage to find while riding the train, waiting for the doctor or just taking a short break from life.

Ten months ago a worldwide flu epidemic decimated the world’s population-but some won’t stay dead. A group of survivors have been hiding in a warehouse store in Long Island to avoid the zombies have now decided to see if any hope of civilization has survived. Six very different people narrate End of the Line: Rachel a depressed nurse with a deadly secret. Jim, an optimist and gay man who believes his husband may still be alive, Tanya, a former thug, adjusting to being a leader, Ashley, an elderly woman who knows she only has so long to find her children and grandchildren, Dave who thinks that the military will eventually rescue them and Princess, a cold hearted woman, who can shoot any target with deadly accuracy. End of the Line is not only a story about zombies, but also a story about starting over.

Targeted Age Group:: Adult

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I had a zombie novel in my head and decided to write it for NaNoWriMo not thinking anything would become of it. Turns out I liked it enough to get it published.

The Darker Side of the Moon- A naval spaceship sent restore communication with our base on the Moon finds that there is something ancient and evil waiting for them.

Dead Night- A man and woman on their first date start to suspect something is wrong with their night out.

Repo Day- In a dystopian future where life is cheap and the elite rule with an iron fist, one man sets out for revenge.

Crescent Moon Risen- An alternate history tale of diplomacy and intrigue.

Matthew Blake lives in Spokane, Washington. He has been a fan of writing and reading horror since he was a boy. He keeps busy between writing and his three-year-old daughter. He was a soldier in the US Army and attained a degree in web development after his time in the service. When he has free time he likes to play disc golf (a popular sport that a lot of people don’t know about, you should try it), and take long walks.

It is 1985 and the United States is reeling from a disease that has taken huge, bloody bites out of the country as people are changed into vampires. The survivors have grouped together in remote outposts and the National Guard is the lifeline that runs between the outposts, bringing news and supplies.

In Wereburg, New York, a young woman named Destiny Riser has lost her parents in the plague but saved her little brother, Chance. But the outpost she brings him to is still young and learning and in an accident of fate, it is ravaged by vampires. Destiny sees her brother bit and changed and from that moment on, rechristens herself ‘Promise’ and vows to release Chance from his nightmare, nighttime existence.

With the assistance of her black horse, Ash, she combs the barren forests surrounding Wereburg and even her old development, Willow’s End, searching for Chance; desperate to end his misery. But then the National Guard brings a stranger to Wereburg, a man who is purportedly a fabled ‘half and half’–someone who has been bit but who has at least a partial immunity to the disease. That man will change everything that Promise believes.

Christine Dougherty is at home in South Jersey with a husband, dog, and two cats. She has published short stories in The Absent Willow Review, Necrotic Tissue, Fiction at Work, and Niteblade.

We live in a world in which there are many occurrences that we do not understand. Like the quick images in the corner of our eyes when we turn our head or when we think we see shadows in the darkness of a closet or hallway? What if these images and shadows were actually beings from another world bleeding into ours? What if there were humans that could see and interact with these beings? What would their days be like? What would their nights be like? Fearlings is a story of such a human.

Fearlings is a short story that is part ONE in a series titled The Fearlings series.

I am Michael Edward, a husband, a father of six, a friend, and a self-proclaimed storyteller. I say storyteller because to use the word writer would be a misrepresentation, it might imply that I can write. I have always felt that my imagination was my strength and I always see everything as a movie. A lot of times when I write, its like I am sitting in a movie theater watching it on screen and I just write down what I see with the words that I know.

I love to write screenplays and that bleeds into my writing style. Also, I have epilepsy, and my seizures have increased, so if they bleed into the writing I apologize. I just want to tell entertaining stories that give people a chance to escape reality for a bit. I mean no disrespect to writers.

Right now I have six stories available to read: Enter Sandman, Fearlings ONE, Fearlings TWO, Fearlings THREE, The Beginning Of The End: ONE and TWO and then I have WHY (A storyteller’s diary).

I am currently working on The Beginning On The End: THREE and FOUR and hope to have it available by November, 2012. I am also always working on the sequels Enter Sandman TWO and Fearlings FOUR and will make them available as soon as they are completed.

I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read the sample chapters, to buy the stories, or to leave reviews. Like I said, being a husband and a father of six, I understand how valuable time is, and again, thank you.

Part two of the series, The 11th Floor, takes you on Luke’s journey to find answers to the nightmares that have been haunting him since his experience a few months prior.

Mentally tortured and physically exhausted, Luke seeks help from a psychiatrist. The doctor suggests an unorthodox method, which Luke initially dismisses. It ultimately proves to be useful, but will it be too late?

Questions are answered. Lives are endangered. Will Luke have what it takes to conquer the evil that haunts him?